NHNZ produces series on epic motorbike rides

Visiting places like the Rat Temple in India - home to about
20,000 rats - features in a new Dunedin-produced television
series which premieres tomorrow night.

Tough Rides India follows the adventures of Canadian
brothers Ryan and Colin Pyle, who were inspired by the 1987
movie Wall Street to abandon the rat race and explore
developing countries on motorbikes.

It premieres at 8.30pm tomorrow on the Travel Channel.

In 2010, the intrepid pair circumnavigated China.

''I met them soon after that and suggested we make a series,
which we shot in India last year,'' said series co-writer and
producer Kyle Murdoch, of Natural History New Zealand in
Dunedin.

''We really wanted to do stuff that was interesting and
surprising and showed the diversity of the country and how
people live,'' Mr Murdoch said.